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Fuzzy Logic Session Success

AristosQueue (NI)
NI Employee (retired)

Every year there are sessions with titles that include "easy" or "explained" or "for non-experts". These sessions have various levels of success. I just walked out of one that was a clear winner. "Fuzzy Logic For Most of Us" by Norm Dingle took on the task of teaching an audience, most of whom are fairly far from their last math course, the principles of fuzzy logic and how to use the Fuzzy Logic Toolkit available for LabVIEW, all in one hour. And he did it. Multiple people leaving the session commented that they now understood the basic idea and felt they could apply the idea to some of their problems. Norm spent the first 20 minutes showing how the basic mathematics work, with a graphical approach that was easy to follow. Then he used the toolkit to build a fuzzy function for changing the speed of a motor based on the ambient temperature, with fuzzy concepts like "if hot then run fast". Then he showed a couple of example programs of other successful fuzzy logic apps. He moved through the topics quickly and made sure to deliver useful information in every sentence.

Definitely a successful session!

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